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Social Media —in all it’s forms— continues to be a prolific part of our digitally connected lives. For Church Leaders, the ever growing stream that is social media continues to inform, inspire, and connect us all. However, finding the most influential voices within the vast array of updates, tweets, and snaps can be a challenge!…

Four Reasons I Love Church Planting Years after each of them went through the great pain of losing their spouses, a curmudgeonly widower and a feisty widow were coaxed toward marriage by well-meaning friends. The wedding was a simple family ceremony in his house, and required no rehearsal. So when the minister used a new…

The Worst Church Leadership Advice. A word about bad advice. Nobody wakes up wanting to give — or even take — terrible advice. Yet, everyone has certainly witnessed real conversations where incredibly poor advice is traded for a smile and a nod. Moreover, a lot of terrible advice is easy to spot. We know when we hear,…

Five Examples of a Healthy Church The search for artificial intelligence continues. Will we be able to create machines that might actually think and learn, rather than simply compute? Can computers “feel” and “reason”? An early experiment that probed the wisdom of computers called for a then-revolutionary new room-sized mainframe to determine which wristwatch provided…

The Top 5 Leadership Blogs You Should Be Reading A cursory search for leadership provides just short of a million resources. Indeed, the very definition of leadership comes in at least thirty-plus flavors. How does one begin to navigate the vast world of voices, articles, and tweets on leadership? Moreover, who are those communities or people that are seeking beauty…

What I Do to Get Myself out of a Leadership Funk My first congregation was very rural, with our home-made church building one of only a dozen whistle-stop structures on the sweeping Alberta prairies. Mail was not delivered, but had to be picked up at the Post Office, housed in the only matchbox-sized general store…

5 blemished Truths About The Church While celebrating their 50th wedding anniversary, both husband and wife were urged to give testimonies to gathered family and friends. He said the usual thing: “The best two words I ever learned were, ‘Yes, Dear!’” She was a little more profound. “One of the things that has made our…

5 Things Leaders Do To Get Things Done Bob was great at talking, but not so much at doing. He could wax eloquent about his vision for projects (e.g., setting up missional communities, creating a prayer chapel, and starting a men’s ministry), but it was mostly talk. It turns out that many church leaders are…

“Deeply Satisfied” Andy wrote on Facebook: “I am deeply satisfied and filled with profound hope for their churches and the Church.” These are the words of Rev. Andy Bossardet, who recently finished teaching a CLC distance learning course. Class members were from Michigan (Charlevoix, Lansing, Wyoming), Georgia (Atlanta), Illinois (Chicago), Wisconsin (Sheboygan), and Iowa (Spencer).…